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Saudi Arabia Plans Wide-Ranging Entertainment Ecosystem
The global branding and urban planning for Qiddiya City aims to bring in 48 million visitors annually.
Qiddiya Investment Company has formed a merger with Saudi Entertainment Ventures (SEVEN) amid plans to comprehensively overhaul the entertainment sector. The new entity aims to construct a comprehensive entertainment ecosystem to further Saudi Arabia’s economic diversification and forge ahead with the construction of the multi-billion dollar Qiddiya project.
Managing director of Qiddiya and chairman of SEVEN Abdullah Aldawood, explained that the merger would “create a new concept of fun and improve the quality of life by building an integrated and unprecedented entertainment ecosystem”.

SEVEN brings vast experience to the ambitious plans after spearheading the development of 21 entertainment projects spanning 14 Saudi Arabian cities, with total investments exceeding $13 billion.
Among its many achievements, SEVEN was responsible for reintroducing cinemas to the Kingdom after a 35-year hiatus and has secured partnerships with global brands, including Transformers, Play-Doh, Hot Wheels, Clip’ n Climb, Discovery Adventures, and Flow House.
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Qiddiya was envisioned as a giga-project and slated for a 2022 opening. However, the timeline has now shifted, with the opening of the eagerly anticipated Six Flags and Aqua Arabia theme parks now pushed back to 2025.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 And Ultra 2 Specs Leak Ahead Of Unpacked
An 800mAh Ultra 2 battery and a switch from Exynos to Qualcomm silicon headline the expected changes for Samsung’s next smartwatches.
Samsung’s next smartwatches have little left to hide. A new leak reported by Android Authority has surfaced most of the remaining details about the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, just over a week before the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22.
The biggest change is an invisible one: Samsung is expected to drop its own Exynos W1000 chip in favor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear Elite SW6100, a chipset unveiled only this year, according to the outlet.
Battery capacity looks like the other notable upgrade. Citing a report from Winfuture, Android Authority says the Watch Ultra 2 could reach 800mAh, well beyond the 590mAh cell in the current Watch Ultra. The 44mm Watch 9 reportedly gets a 445mAh cell — the same capacity as last year’s Watch 8 Classic — while the 40mm model stays at 325mAh.
The 40mm Watch 9 will reportedly feature a 438 x 438-pixel panel, with the 44mm Watch 9 and the Watch Ultra 2 sharing a larger 480 x 480-pixel screen. Samsung leaker Ice Universe has separately claimed the Ultra 2’s display could reach a peak brightness of 5,000 nits. RAM and storage vary by model, topping out at 2GB and 64GB.
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The Ultra 2 keeps its titanium case and 100-meter water resistance; the standard Watch 9 remains aluminum, rated to 5 ATM. All models are said to include Bluetooth 6.0, NFC, and dual-band WiFi, with the usual LTE variants, and ship with One UI 9 Watch running on Wear OS 7.
A separate leak puts the Galaxy Watch 9 at €409 (about $468) for the 40mm Bluetooth model, rising to €489 (about $560) for the 44mm LTE version, with the Watch Ultra 2 LTE at €749 (about $857) — figures Android Authority said were partially corroborated by Winfuture. Confirmation arrives on stage on July 22.
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